Vegan Indian Cooking: 140 Simple and Healthy Vegan Recipes

basis.
My reluctance to label others likely
results from a lifetime of being labeled
myself. I grew up in a largely blue-
collar community outside of
Philadelphia and was teased from a
young age about eating Indian food. “No
way! Your house smells like curry,” a
little blonde girl down the street taunted
when I suggested playing at my house. I
still remember the awful feeling in my
gut that her careless remark caused—
like I’d been punched in the stomach.
I was also criticized for eating mostly
vegetables. One friend invited me over
to dinner only to have her mother (who
was raised in south Philadelphia) ask,
“But what do I serve her? She does eat